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Here are the latest updates for jorgeus.george@gmail.com "Next Big Future" - 6 new articles Wearable Biomonitors for superior sports training and medicine Fungus and Microbiomes better than Genetic Modification for increasing crop yields, cold, heat, salt and drought resistance Amateur Prints Functional Lower Receiver of Gun - DARPA working on additive manufacturing of ground vehicles and planes IAEA Red Book 2011 A few days in Nanomedicine - regeneration, synthetic vaccines, gene therapy, medical tests 1 billion times more sensitive New Dire Claims about Problems Supporting 10 billion people in 2050 to 2100 More Recent Articles Search Next Big Future Prior Mailing Archive Wearable Biomonitors for superior sports training and medicine Technology Review - David Icke, CEO of MC10, wants you to feel like an Olympian. The company wants to provide users with sophisticated knowledge to fuel individual fitness and improve health, all through wearable electronics. The biggest opportunity offered by wearable electronics, he claims, is to unlock the mysteries of human biology so that we understand what makes us sick, and what expands our capacities. "Imagine what we don't know today that we will learn from a closer look at our systems, which is possible when sensing and computing electronics conform to us," he says. Wearable monitor MC10 has formed a Sports Advisory Board (SAB) to shape the next generation of athletic performance monitoring devices. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Fungus and Microbiomes better than Genetic Modification for increasing crop yields, cold, heat, salt and drought resistance New Scientist - researchers sprayed spores from D. lanuginosum's endophytes (fungus) and sprayed them onto wheat seeds, which normally grow at temperatures up to 38 °C. With the spores, the wheat could grow at 70 °C and needed up to 50 per cent less water than normal. Different microbiomes can confer a range of superpowers to a number of crops. Rodriguez's group have also isolated endophytes from a salt-loving dunegrass (Leymus mollis), and a strawberry plant (Fragaria vesca) that grows at high altitude at temperatures as low as 5 °C. Rice plants that had been sprayed with the fungi became able to tolerate salt and cold, respectively. They also grew five times larger and needed half the water of normal plants The results were immediate: within 24 hours of being sprayed, the seeds began sprouting a greater number of longer roots than untreated seeds, and the team found that they expressed genes involved in stress-resistance and drought-tolerance. That suggests endophytes could help crops cope with droughts like the one afflicting the US. Rodriguez thinks the fungi are jump-starting the plants' metabolism, although the exact mechanism is still unclear. "The plant has the ability to do all this, it just can't get its act together without the fungi," he says . Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Amateur Prints Functional Lower Receiver of Gun - DARPA working on additive manufacturing of ground vehicles and planes Gun enthusiast "HaveBlue" has documented in a blog post (via the AR15 forums) the process of what appears to be the first test firing of a firearm made with a 3D printer. HaveBlue reportedly used a Stratasys 3D printer to craft the part, assembled it as a .22 pistol and fired more than 200 rounds with it. Partially 3d printed Gun. Credit: HaveBlue.org In firearms terminology, the receiver is the part of a firearm that houses the operating parts. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • IAEA Red Book 2011 World Nuclear News - the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)published a new Red Book (Uranium 2011: Resources, production and demand). It is currently published every two years and draws together official data on uranium exploration, resources and production, and uranium demand related to its use in nuclear reactors. The new edition covers data to the end of 2010. Total identified uranium resources have increased by over 12% since the last edition, which covered data up to 2009, although lower cost resources have decreased significantly because of increased mining costs. Nevertheless, with total identified resources standing at 7,096,600 tU recoverable at costs of up to $260 per kg, identified resources are sufficient for over 100 years of supply for the world's nuclear fleet. (An additional 124,100 tU of resources have been reported by companies but are not included in official national figures.) So-called undiscovered resources - resources expected to exist based on existing geological knowledge but requiring significant exploration to confirm and define them - currently stand at 10,400,500 tU. The increase in the resource base is the result of concerted exploration and development efforts. Some $2 billion was spent on uranium exploration and mine development in 2010, a 22% increase on 2008 figures, with a focus on areas with the potential for hosting in-situ leach (ISL) recovery operations. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • A few days in Nanomedicine - regeneration, synthetic vaccines, gene therapy, medical tests 1 billion times more sensitive 1. Nano-enhanced cell regeneration (nanoparticles in the scaffolding) combined with gene therapy enables bone regeneration and could help regenerate other tissue. Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have developed a new method of repairing bone using synthetic bone graft substitute material, which combined with gene therapy, can mimic real bone tissue and has potential to regenerate bone in patients who have lost large areas of bone from either disease or trauma. The researchers have developed an innovative scaffold material (made from collagen and nano-sized particles of hydroxyapatite) which acts as a platform to attract the body's own cells and repair bone in the damaged area using gene therapy. The cells are tricked into overproducing bone producing proteins known as BMPs, encouraging regrowth of healthy bone tissue. This is the first time these in-house synthesised nanoparticles have been used in this way and the method has potential to be applied to regenerate tissues in other parts of the body. Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have developed a new method of repairing bone using synthetic bone graft substitute material, which combined with gene therapy, can mimic real bone tissue. (Credit: © Marco Desscouleurs / Fotolia) Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • New Dire Claims about Problems Supporting 10 billion people in 2050 to 2100 New Scientist reports that computational scientist Stephen Emmott has a one man show warning about resource problems if the world population reaches 10 billion. Stephen Emmott claims that overpopulation is the root cause of all the environmental problems with the planet. He also claims there will be no political solution and no technological solutions. At ThinkProgress, Joe Romm is predicting dustbowlification and drought around the world by 2050-2070. Joe Romm got a comment article into the journal Nature. Carbon Dioxide and Population Joe Romm rants against carbon dioxide but that is a slower temperature effect. Many decades longer than fixing soot emissions. Also, population takes decades to change. So if the warning is about 2050 then population is not where you should be looking for any solution. Any climate result is already "baked in" based on population levels and carbon dioxide. I think the forecasts are overstating the issue or are wrong and that more can be done to modify the climate if needed and more effective steps can be taken around climate, food and resources. The problem that many environmentalists have is that they see trends around resource demand but do not try to see what is being done to increase supply and automatically fall back to wanting people to be poor, dead or unborn. Food Meat and grain yields are still increasing now and are projected to continue to increase through 2020. Studies using existing agricultural methods indicates that feeding 15 billion people is feasible. Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles DNA Nanotechnology enables new class of synthetic vaccines Aging heart cells rejuvenated by modified stem cells that enhanced telomerase Carnival of Space 259 Histogenics Gets $49 Million for Tissue Regeneration—and Recapitalization Nanoparticles and gene therapy used to trick the body into overproducing the desired tissue to enable regeneration

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